From the NY Times RACE RELATED -
Monday is the 152nd anniversary of Juneteenth, the day slavery in the United States effectively ended.
More than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, an Army ship arrived on June 19, 1865 in Galveston, Tex. with this news: The Civil War had ended and the South had surrendered two months earlier.
Texas was the last state to learn of the outcome. A Union general announced that “all slaves are free.” Those former slaves, numbering 250,000 in Texas, began celebrating the day.
To help you commemorate the holiday, we worked with Will Shortz, the crossword editor of The Times, to create a word search puzzle that recognizes a small slice of the African-American experience.
To play along, you’ll need to answer the clues to get the last names of 22 famous African Americans. Then find and circle them in the grid. The names may read horizontally, vertically or diagonally in any direction.
Here’s a sampling of clues:
-- With a racket, she crossed a color line.
-- Harlem Renaissance poet, via Joplin, Mo.
-- “This is CNN,” he intones.
When you're done, 10 letters will be left over. Reading line by line, from left to right and top to bottom, these will spell a quotation by Muhammad Ali.
http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/2017/06/18/race-related?nlid=38867499
https://static01.nyt.com/packages/pdf/crossword/juneteenth-wordsearch.pdf
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